"Radiant Geometries" Opening Day

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September 04 – December 19, 2026

Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Closed Sunday, Monday, and holidays

Rice University Moody Center For The Arts
6100 Main Street, MS-480, Houston, TX 77005
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Free

This fall the Moody presents Radiant Geometries, a group exhibition that explores Indigenous knowledge systems and their longstanding relationship with mathematics, science, and technology in the Americas. Through a hemispheric perspective that views North, Central, and South America as interconnected fields, this exhibition brings together contemporary Indigenous and Latin American artists whose practices illuminate vectors of knowledge in which the mathematical, metaphysical, and artistic converge. The included works—among them paintings, sculptures, textiles, video installations, and site-specific commissions—reveal a radiance of geometrical forms emerging from relational teachings rooted in the Americas. 

At its core, Radiant Geometries centers Indigenous ways of knowing that continue to shape relationships to territories, waterways, and interspecies care. The exhibition reframes the histories of mathematics, architecture, and science to highlight Indigenous knowledge. These ideas emerge through Eamon Ore-Giron’s painting of an Incan dark constellation, Patrick Martinez’s installation inspired by the pre-Columbian murals on the Cacaxtla pyramid mounds in central Mexico, and Natalia Montoya’s totemic sculptures referencing an Aymara dance that honors agricultural cycles. Newly commissioned works will respond to sonic technologies, the dynamic beadwork of Cheyenne cultural belongings held in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, and Mayan ceramics in Rice University’s collection, which will feature in the exhibition. Collectively, the works situate creation stories, ceremony, and kinship as living knowledge structures that shape relational understandings of the world.  

  1. The Moody Center for the Arts is located on the campus of Rice University and is best reached by using Campus Entrance 8 at the intersection of University Boulevard and Stockton Street. As you enter campus, at the first intersection, the building is on the right. There is a dedicated parking lot, “Moody Lot,” adjacent to the building. Payment for the Moody Lot is by credit card only.
  2.  The permanent acquisition of artworks, the Rice Public Art Collection, reaches across the entire Rice campus and has been praised in Art & Object as one of the “most rigorous world-class permanent collections of public art in the country.” It includes an iconic James Turrell Skyspace, important sculptures by Michael Heizer, Shirazeh Houshiary, Beverly Pepper, Ursula Von Rydingsgard, and Mark di Suvero, a Sol Lewitt wall drawing, and two-dimensional works by Carmen Herrera, Dorothy Hood, Charles Gaines and Leo Villareal, among many others. 

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